Hey all, I stumbled across this vendor https://www.ufseeds.com/ and while looking over their pepper seed collection. They are selling a pepper x seed. Now, Ive read about this myth of a pepper and seeing it for sale makes me question the vendor. Any insight??
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Anyone can call anything they want "Pepper X", it's not trademarked afaik. You can call a bell pepper "Pepper X" if you want.
Edit: I just ran a search on the term Pepper X at the USPTO, and there are no results. While this isn't conclusive, it's a good indicator that there's no trademark.
Edit 2: It's likely not the same mythical unicorn pepper that Ed C supposedly took 10 years to breed [emoji849], but hey it's likely just as good as any other green superhot. Also, on the plus side it does exist.
Edit: I just ran a search on the term Pepper X at the USPTO, and there are no results. While this isn't conclusive, it's a good indicator that there's no trademark.
Edit 2: It's likely not the same mythical unicorn pepper that Ed C supposedly took 10 years to breed [emoji849], but hey it's likely just as good as any other green superhot. Also, on the plus side it does exist.
What!? Someone on the internet could lie?! How???thegreenman said:
757Pepper said:
Yeah, they are claiming 3 million SHU and using a picture associated with Ed Currie's pepper. So it seems like they are strongly implying that this is the Pepper X. And since Ed has still not released any seeds for his pepper, I would be highly dubious of any other vendors that are selling seeds for it. It gives me the impression that they are just trying to use the publicity for Pepper X to make a quick buck selling fake seeds to folks who don't know any better.
I think that you are right to be leery of these guys. Stick with the reputable seed vendors.Edit:
On further inspection, I noticed that the layout of their website reminded me of Park Seed's site. Sure enough, Urban Farmer lifted a lot of their photos and content from Park Seed. Like this one, where they just cut off the "Exclusive" tag and recycled the photo:
https://parkseed.com/petite-colour-blend-hybrid-pepper-seeds/p/52510-PK-P1/
https://www.ufseeds.com/product/petite-mix-bell-pepper-seeds/
This all seems pretty sketchy to me. I would steer clear of these guys.
+1. A lot of red flags coming from that vendor, if you ask me.BlackFatalii said:
Yeah, they are claiming 3 million SHU and using a picture associated with Ed Currie's pepper. So it seems like they are strongly implying that this is the Pepper X. And since Ed has still not released any seeds for his pepper, I would be highly dubious of any other vendors that are selling seeds for it. It gives me the impression that they are just trying to use the publicity for Pepper X to make a quick buck selling fake seeds to folks who don't know any better.
Edit:
On further inspection, I noticed that the layout of their website reminded me of Park Seed's site. Sure enough, Urban Farmer lifted a lot of their photos and content from Park Seed. Like this one, where they just cut off the "Exclusive" tag and recycled the photo:
https://parkseed.com/petite-colour-blend-hybrid-pepper-seeds/p/52510-PK-P1/
https://www.ufseeds.com/product/petite-mix-bell-pepper-seeds/
This all seems pretty sketchy to me. I would steer clear of these guys.
Yeah, I saw that video. AFAIK, those were some other pods. Might've been the games that Duffy was distributing as some sort of gag around that same time? I don't recall the details, but it was discussed here on THP shortly after Ted put that video out. If you search on this sub-forum, you'll find a thread or two.Ruid said:
Turns out they got no seeds at all, about two weeks after I got an email telling me my order took off (was shipped), I received an email telling me that I have received a full refund due to their suppliers inability to supply them the seeds. Not surprised but had to try to see how this would have panned out!
Lol, who would have thunk.MtlPeppah said: